Dead Rising 2 announced for Xbox 360 and PS3

[Dachan-da]

Am I the only one that thinks killing zombies with a Moose Head is freaking awesome? No, you are not alone. I love the Moose, and killing Zombies, so this just makes me tooooooo happy Coinreturn : Thanks for posting the screen shots and the info up, they are fucking ace!

[Cody]

From the trailer it looks as though you can only go inside one casino and in the front of it aswell. Looks good though none the less

[MinionZombie]

From the trailer it looks as though you can only go inside one casino and in the front of it aswell. Looks good though none the less I'd imagine there's more indoor action than that - but importantly the trailer shows you outside on a stretch of the Vegas strip, so perhaps we'll get more outdoor action that allows you to go inside a variety of areas as well. It'd also be cool if you could block off areas and clear them of zombies completely - barricade the doors, and crawl in through an access hatch or a vent or something - that'd be cool. Even a mode where there was a certain number of zombies, and that was it, they don't respawn, if you slay them all, you've slain them all. That'd be cool.

[Dachan-da]

It'd also be cool if you could block off areas and clear them of zombies completely - barricade the doors, and crawl in through an access hatch or a vent or something - that'd be cool. That would be neat, particularly if they managed to tie it in with a ‘free roaming’ aspect, being able to create little ‘safe zones’ for your self so you have time to rest up or re-load or what ever. I’d like to see something in the game that was covered in the Zombie Survival Guide: The affect the constant moaning from the Zombies could have on a human. It would be neat to see some sort of ‘sanity gauge’, I don’t mean that the main character can loose the plot and get extra strength or anything like that, but more that it would have a negative affect. The longer you were around the constant moaning, the worse the affect: disorientation, blurred vision, slowly depleting health. Also the number of Zombies around could impact the speed of the affect i.e. the more moaning Zombies, the faster the negative effect would happen

[ProfessorChaos]

^ they had that effect in the first dead rising. you never noticed it because frank west was a total badass. nothing fazes him. ever. he's covered wars, ya know... and chuck greene looks like he could beat frank west's chubby ass, so i doubt they'll bother with the psychological fatigue. hope they release this trailer on xboxlive soon so i can download it and watch it on my HDTV instead of a crappy monitor. EDIT: nevermind, it's already up.

[Dachan-da]

^ they had that effect in the first dead rising. you never noticed it because frank west was a total badass. Nothing fazes him. Ever. He’s covered wars, ya know... Cool man, im a PS3 bloke my self so I only managed to get a little game time in with Dead Rising on my little brothers Xbox, so I haven’t seen all the features of the actual game, or know the history of the main character. But im stoked that the game is now coming to the PS3 platform

[cmw43]

Even a mode where there was a certain number of zombies, and that was it, they don't respawn, if you slay them all, you've slain them all. That'd be cool. I think they had that in the first one, but it was the population of the town which was something like 53,000. There was an acheivment for it anyway.

[MinionZombie]

I think they had that in the first one, but it was the population of the town which was something like 53,000. There was an acheivment for it anyway. Aye, that was an achievement ... but I think they just kept respawning regardless ... I think anyway, I've never actually bothered trying for it.

[krakenslayer]

I’d like to see something in the game that was covered in the Zombie Survival Guide: The affect the constant moaning from the Zombies could have on a human. It would be neat to see some sort of ‘sanity gauge’, I don’t mean that the main character can loose the plot and get extra strength or anything like that, but more that it would have a negative affect. The longer you were around the constant moaning, the worse the affect: disorientation, blurred vision, slowly depleting health. Also the number of Zombies around could impact the speed of the affect i.e. the more moaning Zombies, the faster the negative effect would happen Someone's been playing Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, right?

[MikePizzoff]

I think they had that in the first one, but it was the population of the town which was something like 53,000. There was an acheivment for it anyway. Nah, that wasn't in the first one. I have that achievement. The zombies constantly respawn in the first DR, there is no finite amount.

[darth los]

I couldn't say either way but I can tell you that the number 53,000 is also very close to the genocide achievement in left 4 dead where you have to reach 53,595 infected killed. Similar numbers, perhaps that's what people are thinking of.

[ProfessorChaos]

the achievement in dead rising is called "zombie genocider" and you get it by killing around 53k zombies. the left 4 dead achievement is called zombie genocidest" and you get it for killing that many zombies plus one.

[darth los]

the achievement in dead rising is called "zombie genocider" and you get it by killing around 53k zombies. the left 4 dead achievement is called zombie genocidest" and you get it for killing that many zombies plus one. Gee, ya think the creative teams consulted each other on that one?

[MikePizzoff]

Gee, ya think the creative teams consulted each other on that one? It's an homage to DR.

[CoinReturn]

The atmosphere, camera angles, and zombie animations remind me very much of Dawn '78 mixed with Resident Evil 2: